Watch Paul Rudd film emotional Ryan Reynolds, Rob McElhenney as Wrexham secures promotion
Talk about your Hollywood ending.
Ryan Reynolds held his head in his hands. Rob McElhenney took a deep breath and was wiping tears from his eyes.
Both were reacting as thousands of Wrexham fans flooded onto the field at the Racecourse Ground.
All because a Welsh soccer club was celebrating on Saturday after Wrexham secured promotion to the fourth tier of the English game.
And Paul Rudd was there to film it all.
Reynolds and McElhenney, along with Rudd, were among a crowd of more than 10,000 at the Racecourse in north Wales to see Wrexham clinch the National League title with a 3-1 win over Boreham Wood.
Reynolds and McElhenney They seemingly have become soccer fanatics since completing their out-of-nowhere purchase of the club for $2.5 million in 2021. An offshoot of the takeover was the making a documentary — entitled “Welcome to Wrexham” — that has charted the journey of a team run by a couple of actors learning the ropes of sports club ownership.
Now, Wrexham is heading back into the English Football League — the three divisions below the Premier League — for the first time in 15 years.
“One thing that is running through my head over and over again,” Reynolds said, per The Associated Press, looking around at Wrexham’s jubilant players and fans, “is that people said at the beginning, ‘Why Wrexham, why Wrexham?’ This is exactly why Wrexham.”
Reynolds is best known for starring in the “Deadpool” movies, while McElhenney is the creator of TV show “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”
It is Wrexham’s first league title at any level since in 1977.
Since their unlikely takeover, Reynolds (21 million) and McElhenney (1 million) have used their large Twitter followings to promote the club and brought in sponsors such as TikTok, Aviation Gin and Expedia, global brands that typically have no place at this level of the game.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.